Allister Coetzee (Namibia coach, after the 96-0 defeat against France): “It really hurts, it’s a humiliation. The players were overwhelmed by events, they completely foiled. Each of our mistakes was punished, as you would expect against a team of France’s quality. We still have our goal of beating Uruguay. We will have to pull ourselves together quickly. Like after seeing a horror film, we will have to put it all behind us as quickly as possible and move on to something else.
Losing our captain (Johan Deysel) in the 46th minute was very damaging. This is the direction rugby is taking today. It’s not intentional, it happened very quickly. Dupont is not very big. Johan is not a bad player, he is not used to taking cards, he is a very good defender. It’s not unfair, but it’s a shame that it fell on him, the glue of our team. It was an unfortunate accident.”
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